A Norwegian tourist yesterday said authorities had ordered her to leave India after taking part in protests against a new citizenship law, becoming the second European to be ejected over the demonstrations.

Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday told supporters he would win a March general election after scoring a landslide victory in the leadership primary of his right-wing Likud party.

Iraqis were divided yesterday by their president’s threat to resign rather than accept a pro-Iran coalition’s candidate for premier, with some saying it was unconstitutional but others praising his civic-mindedness.

China yesterday launched one of the world’s most powerful rockets in a major step forward for its planned mission to Mars in 2020.

The death toll from Typhoon Phanfone’s battering of the Philippines on Christmas Day has risen to 28, and will likely climb further,

Tropical Cyclone Sarai barrelled off the coast of Fiji early yesterday, forcing hundreds of residents to move to higher ground ahead

An earthquake struck Iran yesterday less than 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the country’s only nuclear power plant, monitors said.

Japan will send a military vessel and two patrol planes to help protect waterways in the Middle East but will not join a US-led coalition in the region, the government said yesterday.

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has expressed “serious concern” over whether the bloc could conclude a post-

A massive locust invasion has destroyed thousands of hectares of crops in northwest India, authorities said, with some experts

Former Pakistan president and army chief Pervez Musharraf has submitted a petition in Lahore High Court challenging the death

More than 235,000 people have fled the Idlib region over the past two weeks, the UN said yesterday, amid heightened regime and Russian attacks on Syria’s last major opposition bastion.

Israel’s embattled premier Benjamin Netanyahu faced a challenge yesterday for the leadership of his Likud party from a longtime rival, former interior minister Gideon Saar.

Italian Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement yesterday said he had resigned because his

China, Russia and Iran will hold joint naval drills starting today in the Gulf of Oman, Beijing said, at a time of heightened tensions since

Weekly Hamas-backed demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel border will be suspended for three months, protest organisers in the

Iraqi President Barham Salih yesterday refused to designate the nominee of an Iran-backed parliamentary bloc for prime minister, saying he would rather resign than appoint someone to the position who would be rejected by protesters.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday opened the way for direct Turkish military intervention in Libya, announcing a parliamentary vote in early January on sending troops to support the UN-backed Tripoli government against strongman Khalifa Haftar.

Schoolchildren skipping class to strike, protests bringing city centres to a standstill: armed with dire warnings from scientists, people around the world dragged the climate emergency into the mainstream in 2019.

Seventeen civilians were killed in an attack in a market in Yemen’s northern Saada governorate, the United Nations said, the third deadly assault on the same location in just over a month.